In addition, his maternal uncle was the architect, Oliver Hill (1887 – 1968), celebrated for designing the British Pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1937 and for his grand country houses.

By the early 1960s Terence Verity began to feel that the threat of television would be the death of cinema and he decided to leave the industry and return to his original profession of architecture.

Some of Verity’s first commissions were for two bridge service stations, north and west of Manchester, at Keele and Charnock Richard, on the newly constructed M6 motorway.

He met his wife, Enid Hill (born 1916; died 19 July 2011) (coincidentally the same maiden name as his mother) at a party when they were both in their mid teens.

In the mid 1960s, Verity Associates accepted some commissions for the royal family in Jordan, notably for a large Sports complex.

It was while Terence and his wife, Enid, were in Jordan, doing some research for their project, that he had a fall at the castle of Al Karak in the south of the country.